Posted on 12/25/2022 12:10:34 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Conservative GOP senators blasted Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Sunday for joining with Democrats to shepherd a $1.7 trillion year-end spending bill into law over the objections of House Republicans, saying it was an act of "arrogance" that betrayed promises to voters.
"Our party leadership turned on Republican voters, turned on the Republican base, turned on most Republican senators," Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) told "The Cats Roundtable" and host John Catsimitidas on WABC radio in New York. "It has happened before, but this is one too many times. For me, this is the final straw."
Lee called the omnibus spending bill signed into law Friday "the ugliest spending bill on record" and one that signaled "that voters don't see much of a defining difference with Democrats."
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) mocked those of his GOP colleagues who voted for the bill and celebrated its passage.
"To declare that a victory, to say that's a win, that's like a football team that just lost the game 60 to 0, and they kick a field goal in the waning seconds and say the field goal is a big win," Johnson told Catsimitidas. "No, we just got our you-know-whats handed to us."
Johnson said that McConnell's maneuver not only betrayed conservative voters but also undercut House Republicans about to take over in January who had asked for a short-term spending plan.
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RE: Arrogance and voter betrayal....
McConnell: Aw, I’m too old to change now. Gimme a break, guys.
Mike Lee has been considered a RINO now since Trump’s reign. Is he trying to rebrand himself or is this just kabuki theater and controlled opposition?
Only 10 of them voted against him a few weeks ago.
So what are they going to do about it? Nothing. The “pretend” conservatives get their fifteen minutes and then it’s back to betraying America.
Rand Paul should run to primary McConnell and have the Republican governor appoint a Senator to his vacated seat when he wins the election. ;-P
Talk is cheap.
If a Rat Republican gets the bipartisan spirit, their district and state is likely to get extra federal funds.
“Talk is cheap.”
Apperently nobody is pissed off enough to start shooting yet.
Meanwhile, prices continue to rise much faster than compounded interest bank deposits.
Nobody is cheaper than the turtle.
“Talk is cheap”
Not from any elected federal politician
But it’s all in good fun.
Yup, dump in another 1.7 into the inflation hopper and the same into erosion of the US buck.
She’s a double header for bankruptcy, but what the hay, it’s all family heirlooms being passed on... To our great great grandchildren.
The Marxists are getting their way....
But when they had the chance to give him the boot, not enough of them did.
They should send McTurtle a sternly worded letter.“
Yeah, this is like McCarthy and his statement after it was a done deal when he should have spent the week trying to stop it like a real Speaker would have.
That would be amazing!
Well it appear that half of the republican members of the Senate are die hard liberal infiltrators. So they will never vote Mitch out as leader. Mitch can only be voted out at the ballot box. But wait- he is from the same group that controls the ballot box with 20 forms of vote fraud.
Ping
My two alleged conservative GOP senators voted for the damn thing.
Boozman just got reelected and he was already way past his sell by date. Cotton is up in 24. We need a good primary opponent to send him to CNN or MSNBC.
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